Where planners at Wealden said that they had put up notices in Hackhurst
Lane in reference to an application to erect a timber fence on or adjacent
to the carriageway that belonged to the Earl of Chichester, Wealden
District Council were obliged to give Mrs Anne
Harris a list of all those persons or businesses in that vicinity.

The problem in this case was that some of those on the list were not
provided with a copy of the Planning Notice. They only found out about
this by accident. Whereas, they should have found out with a letter from
the council addressed to them personally.

One way of trying
to push a planning application through is not to tell anyone about it.
Once passed, there is no right of appeal to the Secretary of
State. The
only way to challenge any Abuse of
Process, would then be by Judicial
Review - and not many people could afford the legal fees attaching to such
a process - that is in effect the preserve of the rich.

Where the law is
only available to the rich, that is an Article 14 violation and a system
that Queen Victoria would
not be amused about.